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“You did a better job summarizing my book than I would have done!” - Jared Kushner
“This is excellent. I actually learned a lot.” - Professor John Mearsheimer
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Our pitch to decision-makers:
Government is hard. You are one of the busiest people on the planet.
We know from experience that you might actually feel less well-informed at the heart of power than you ever did as a civilian. And you’re in so many meetings, you’re all but running on fumes.
Information you’re provided with internally is often poor, sometimes flat wrong, and you’re not given a true menu of conceivable paths forward.
We will provide briefs you can consume inside 15 minutes, giving you a broader range of options than you’re otherwise likely being presented; as well as case studies of the best like-examples of these policies from history and how practically they were implemented.
Our mission statement: help guide decision-makers to be less foolish. (With demands of the job, it’s extremely difficult not to be.)
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We intend to run lean, and hope with a relatively humble budget we can have outsized impact compared to any ordinary think tank.